Algorithm to automatically detect abnormally long periods of inactivity in a home

HealthNet'07: Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGMOBILE International Workshop on Systems and Networking Support for Healthcare and Assisted Living Environments

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 89-94

  Cuddihy, Paul ^a   Weisenberg, Jenny ^a   Graichen, Catherine ^a   Ganesh, Meena ^a  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity detection; Automated learning; Elder monitoring; Motion sensing; Outlier detection

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

ACTIVITY DETECTION; AUTOMATED LEARNING; ELDER MONITORING; MOTION SENSING; OUTLIER DETECTION;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 35548949833     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1248054.1248081     Document Type: Conference Paper

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